Professor Maciej Paszynski is a pioneer of modern methods of computer simulation, called isogeometric analysis in Poland. He discovered a new economical way of conducting complex simulations on a regular laptop without the need for using costly and sometimes hardly accessible supercomputers.
Designing and performing simulations may be a truly exciting task. Choosing their subject matter can be guided by their usefulness to society. The lecture will include such interesting examples of computer simulations, namely:
Professor Maciej Paszyński
Professor in the Institute of Computer Science at the AGH University. He has been invited to the University of Texas at Austin as a visiting professor each year from 2003. Co-author of over 160 research papers indexed in SCOPUS and editor of “Journal of Computational Science” as well as co-chair of the conference series “International Conference on Computational Science”. Professor Paszyński cooperates with researchers from the USA, Spain, Australia, and Chile. He leads the Algorhythm and Adaptive Systems research group a2s.agh.edu.pl.
X-ray microtomography is a unique technique which allows to take a look deep into the matter without hindering it. This technique is extremely versatile and not limited only to a specific type of examinations. We use it in materials research (polymers, composites, metals, and their alloys), geological research (rocks, minerals, fossils), biological research (plants, soft and hard biological tissues), engineering research (electronics and semiconductors, industrial inspection) and wherever it is necessary to learn the internal structure of objects in a non-destructive way (e.g. museum objects).
The Laboratory of Micro and Nano Tomography of the AGH University (LMiNT) was established in 2012 and since then has participated in numerous interesting research projects. We will hear about some of them during the lecture. We will also learn how bones are studied and their synthetic equivalents designed, what happens due to a stone in heart, when we started hunting mammoths, and what tomography and the search for perpetrators of crimes have in common.
AGH University Associate Professor Jacek Tarasiuk
Employee of the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at the AGH University. He conducts interdisciplinary research on the verge of physics, materials engineering, bioengineering, and biomechanics. He is interested in porous structures, including the osseous tissue. He conducts research on designing structures with particular properties and their production with the use of incremental methods and 3D printing. Since 2012, he has headed the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Tomography of the AGH University. The Laboratory performs hundreds of measurements a year, both within research conducted at the AGH University, as well as in other research units. He also takes measurements for industry.